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Tutorials

Unux Backups using Mac Terminal

March 10, 2011

SSH – Create a backup of home directory su to root cd / tar -zcvf archive-home.tar.gz home mv archive-home.tar.gz tmp/archive-home.tar.gz wget archive-home.tar.gz SFTP – Download the directory to your mac desktop cd / cd tmp get archive-home.tar.gz

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Change Admin Email in WordPress

January 26, 2011

1. Log into CPanel 2. go to file manager 3. navigate to the blogs main directory 4. Select “wp-config.php” 5. Select “Code Edit” 6. When code editor window pop’s open, select “edit” 7. Find the line “define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘XXXXXX’);” (XXXXXX = database name) 8. Remember what the databse name is. 9. Close code editor without saving. [...]

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ShareThis

January 24, 2011

The easiest way to do this is by using theisis openhook. Under “after Headlines” add <span class="st_facebook" st_title='<?php the_title(); ?>' st_url='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' displayText='Facebook'></span> <span class="st_twitter" st_title='<?php the_title(); ?>' st_url='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' displayText='Twitter'></span> <span class="st_email" st_title='<?php the_title(); ?>' st_url='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' displayText='Email'></span> <span class="st_sharethis" st_title='<?php the_title(); ?>' st_url='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' displayText='ShareThis'></span> You will also need [...]

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Facebook

October 25, 2010

Here are a few items to install from facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins/ http://www.facebook.com/insights/ or a simple badge: http://www.facebook.com/badges/ or facebook page like boxes: <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like-box href="http://www.facebook.com/XXX" width="292" show_faces="true" stream="false" header="true"></fb:like-box> Replace XXX with your facebook page ID

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Installing Scribe

February 22, 2010

-Log into Control Panel. -Click onto file manager. -Navigate to the folder containing your wordpress blog. -Then into the subfolder > wp-content > plugins -Upload thesis zip file into the “themes” directory. -After you have uploaded it, go back the “plugins” directory & “extract” the zip file -log into wp admin and activate plugin. (you [...]

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Installing Thesis theme

February 22, 2010

-Log into Control Panel. -Click onto file manager. -Navigate to the folder containing your wordpress blog. -Then into the subfolder > wp-content > themes -Upload thesis zip file into the “themes” directory. -After you have uploaded it, go back the “themes directory & “extract” the zip file -In Thesis folder, change the folder “custom-sample” to [...]

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Adding Google Apps & Gmail

January 22, 2010

========= STEP 1 ========= http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html & create an account. ========= STEP 2 ========= You will need to modify the Host records in order to use this. Select “cname” option. (If you forget and need to do this later, the link for this is at: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOURDOMAINNAME.COM/VerifyOwnership (replacing your domain with “YOURDOMAINNAME.COM” in the link) ========= STEP [...]

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Installing WordPress

January 4, 2010

Below is quick checklist that I use when I setup a new blog, these are all not “required” but a useful guide. -Update domain to point to  your  account (either by nameservers or IP) -Add domain to cpanel -Add email account to forward to your email. -Install WordPress on “www” from cpanel using Simple Scripts. [...]

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vhost configuration

February 22, 2009

CONFIGURING NEW ACCOUNTS HostMySite 1. Configure domain manager at modelserv as indicated below. The IP address for the A adress and MXE is 204.202.2.24. Your domain name (eg domainname.com) should be placed in the ftp, www, pop, imap, 2. Add a user for this domain in iManager. 3. Add virtual host for this domain in [...]

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